Abstract
This work serves as an important extension of previous work on cavitation simulation [Sukop and Or, Phys. Rev. E 71, 046703 (2005)]. A modified Shan-Chen single-component multiphase lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate two different heterogeneous cavitation nucleation mechanisms, the free gas bubble model and the crevice nucleation model. Improvements include the use of a real-gas equation of state, a redefined effective mass function, and the exact difference method forcing scheme. As a result, much larger density ratios, better thermodynamic consistency, and improved numerical accuracy are achieved. In addition, the crevice nucleation model is numerically investigated using the lattice Boltzmann method. The simulations show excellent qualitative and quantitative agreement with the heterogeneous nucleation theories.
5 More- Received 31 March 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.023305
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